Sun 30 Oct: RLWC: Samoa v France KO 17:00

[JimBronco]

Really good try. Great hands 

[Hvy wg]

Set restarts pretty easy to come so far

[Gerrumonside ref]

2 minutes ago, Northern Eel said:

Beautiful hands from Samoa. Almost impossible to defend.

And again 

[Farmduck]

"Tiny" May????

[The Daddy]

Dumb play from Pelissier. Gives away an unnecessary penalty on the 5th tackle and his team ends up having to defend another two sets 

[Szymala]

3rd cricket score of the day imminent.

[SydneyRoosters]

France are dreadful

[JimBronco]

Tough to see a way back right now for France

[Just Browny]

Aussies have brought their own ref again. I love all the 12 tackle sets, very exciting.

[bratman]

Hmm France getting battered.

[SydneyRoosters]

Not a good look for our international game having heritage nations devastating our legit rugby league nations.

[The Daddy]

France's game management is really poor. They're always gambling and it just ends up with them doing more defending 

[DavidM]

May scores . Aunty Teresa will be chuffed watching at home

[Damien]

6 minutes ago, ShropshireBull said:

Some nice NRL reffing for that 6 again. 

This is meant to be a World Cup with the best players and the best referees. Indeed, having the best referee is the argument for not having neutral referees. Yet some of these NRL referees have little NRL experience and others haven't refereed at all for a few years and have simply been touch judges. The NRL seem to be using this World Cup as work experience for its junior refs.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Damien

[MZH]

I didn't really think France would win, but I expected them to really take the game to Samoa and give us a decent watchable game. So far it's yet more one way traffic. They really a try in the next minutes to give themselves something to fight for.

[The Daddy]

France look really vulnerable out wide 

[Northern Eel]

Just now, MZH said:

I didn't really think France would win, but I expected them to really take the game to Samoa and give us a decent watchable game. So far it's yet more one way traffic. They really a try in the next minutes to give themselves something to fight for.

This is the point of the game that they hit back twice against England, but they've not shown much yet.

[Hvy wg]

We need to get rid of the report rule. Sin bin or sending of. We have enough of letting them walk away with it.

[LeytherRob]

For a team comprised of players almost exclusively from 2 clubs, France are an incredibly disorganised team. The desperately need a better coach and some smart spine players in time for 2025. Gigot and Pelissier just seem to create mountains of extra work for their team meates in every game through braindead choices.

[The Daddy]

How is that high tackle not a yellow card 

[Northern Eel]

Knees and hands in the ruck every tackle, yet no set restart for France. At least let's have a level playing field.

[SydneyRoosters]

PENALTY

[SydneyRoosters]

Didn’t know you were allowed to drop players on there neck

Edited October 30, 2022 by SydneyRoosters

[Just Browny]

2 minutes ago, The Daddy said:

France look really vulnerable out wide 

Laguerre is marking the second rower like a limpet. Trouble being that Laguerre is playing centre, so there's an overlap every time.

[Hvy wg]

Luai run it straight you #####